Workers next weekend will strip off the last of the old National City banners at branch banks across the region.

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Workers next weekend will strip off the last of the old National City banners at branch banks across the region, revealing new nameplates marking PNC's public debut as the No. 3 bank in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

The conversion comes 16 months after PNC Financial Services Group agreed to buy out struggling National City, then the region's third-largest bank with 65 branches.

Twenty-two branches will close during the conversion next weekend. Some are old National City branches. Others are PNC branches. Customer accounts at closed branches will be moved to branches that ...